The Children | KOLLATERAL


“There is no age in which everything is experienced as intensely as in childhood. We grown-ups should remember what that was like.” (Astrid Lindgren)

In the second part of the Sweden film we remember: the children talk about loneliness in quarantine, about compulsory masks and compulsory tests in German schools, about lost joys and lost friends. A visit to Sweden shows a different world.

If the mask does not sit properly, then you have to go to the head teacher, and she keeps telling you: put your mask on properly, put your mask on properly. Then they all put them on properly, but it keeps slipping down. The teachers simply do not get it, that it keeps slipping down. No matter how hard you press it onto your nose. It just slips down, and then you get a telling-off. And after that you go straight to the head. I did not have any illness at all, just this corona.

I felt really good, but I just had this coronavirus. It was very silly that I had to stay at home for so long, just because a few viruses were inside my body. But I felt really good, just like every day when I do not have corona. I once went shopping. I wanted to fetch groceries, because Mum was cooking. I had one of those medical masks on.

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